2027 Associate Marketing Specialist - New Orleans, LA

**2027 Associate Marketing Specialist \- New Orleans, LA**

**Description**

**_About the Entry Level Role_**

As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business\. This entry\-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands\-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities\.

**_Who We Are_**

Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC\. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation\. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support\.

All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc\. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft\. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today\.

Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems\.com\.

**_About This Role_**

Textron Systems is seeking a Marketing Associate to support Marketing & Communications \(MARCOM\) activities across multiple business lines, gaining exposure to the full portfolio and developing foundational business acumen\.

The Marketing Associate will build technical functional skills across the marketing mix\. This role offers hands\-on learning opportunities including development of marketing materials across channels and formats, conducting and summarizing research, gathering and sharing data and metrics, shadowing our MARCOM Business Partners, collaborating with MARCOM centers of excellence, and taking ownership of both recurring duties and individual projects\.

+ Support the development, execution and measurement of marketing campaigns and content across internal and external channels\.

+ Help conduct audience and competitive research to inform messaging and positioning\.

+ Draft and update product/program content, marketing collateral, digital content and other marketing materials across formats and channels\.

+ Collaborate with Creative Services/Digital Development, External Communications, Employee Communications, and Trade Shows & Events teams to execute work\.

+ Assist in developing shot lists/storyboards and participate in photo and video shoot coordination\.

+ Support local, regional, and national events, including trade shows, demonstrations, conferences, and internal meetings\.

+ Participate in project initiation, approval processes, and quality checks\.

+ Take on assigned individual projects and recurring duties that contribute to strategic marketing initiatives\.

+ Submitting invoices and working with vendor partners\.

+ Other duties as assigned\.

+ Travel requirements: up to 40%\.

+ Proficiency with Microsoft Office; ability to learn marketing systems and content management tools \(e\.g\., Sprout, Hive, SharePoint, Bynder, Gather Content\)\.

+ Strong writing, editing, and organizational skills with attention to detail\.

+ Ability to work effectively in a fast\-paced, collaborative environment\.

+ Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities\.

+ Proactive, curious, and eager to learn with a resourceful approach to research and problemsolving\.

+ Professional verbal and written communication skills\.

+ Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business or a related discipline required\.

+ Internship experience or relevant project work preferred\.

**_Why Build